Describe how you will assess your students' understanding of the unit's learning goals throughout the unit. These assessments should include formative assessments, e.g. questions that you ask that probe probable misconceptions, embedded assessments, e.g. activity artifacts, and summative assessments, e.g. tests and quizzes. Note: You are encouraged to use the assessment developed in class in this section.
The assessments in this unit will be used to improve my teaching for future lessons and as artifacts of student knowledge about evolution. Students will show understanding by making connections between their observations in class activities and teacher explanation/ chapter readings about evolutionary processes. Students will show a summation of their knowledge by completion of an exam at the end of the unit.
Formative Assessments:
-Opening exercise assessing students ' understanding of the origins of life
-Assessing the depth of students' connections and observations of homologous structures
-Tools and objects station sheet: completion of answers
-One, two, punches after lessons:
origins of life lesson
Darwin, Wallace, Larmark lesson
Survival of the fittest activity
-Opening exercise: response to section of text on Darwin, Wallace, and Lamark
-Compare and Contrast graphic organizer for Darwin and Lamark
-Station sheets for Adaptation Inquiry Lab
Summative Assessments:
- Structure and Endosymbiosis quiz
- Opening exercise revisions
- Unit Exam
- Final Project
The assessments in this unit will be used to improve my teaching for future lessons and as artifacts of student knowledge about evolution. Students will show understanding by making connections between their observations in class activities and teacher explanation/ chapter readings about evolutionary processes. Students will show a summation of their knowledge by completion of an exam at the end of the unit.
Formative Assessments:
-Opening exercise assessing students ' understanding of the origins of life
-Assessing the depth of students' connections and observations of homologous structures
-Tools and objects station sheet: completion of answers
-One, two, punches after lessons:
-Opening exercise: response to section of text on Darwin, Wallace, and Lamark
-Compare and Contrast graphic organizer for Darwin and Lamark
-Station sheets for Adaptation Inquiry Lab
Summative Assessments:
- Structure and Endosymbiosis quiz
- Opening exercise revisions
- Unit Exam
- Final Project
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